fragments of memory

I rode with my dad on the back of a 1967 Honda 90 motorcycle yesterday, and it was terrifying/amazing. We were cruising along at approximately 10mph on mostly-deserted suburban streets, but I was shaking the entire time. I trusted my dad without question; it was fear of other cars (even though we saw exactly one) that had me all worked up. Still, exhilarating. I had never ridden a motorcycle before!

Meanwhile, since I've owed thorne_scratch snippets of fic for over a week now, I figured I'd just do the WIP meme again.

( WIP meme. )

Lastly...

The Typewriters. Are you guys okay? I get very worried over here.

1) Tag six people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
How about buckle_berry, ecl1958, moonmelody, morebliss, provetheworst, and thorne_scratch.


2) People who have been tagged may write their answers on their journal and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.


( The meme. )

Eh. I was going to write a big self-involved intro for this, but that seemed ridiculous and...well. Self-involved.

Basically I'm just doing the unfinished fic meme again.

( Baseball RPS, NBA RPS, Figure Skating RPS. )

So that's that.

Meanwhile, my photo of the moment:


I've had this open in a tab for at least four days, and I never do that. I just never get around to closing it, somehow <3

So okay, those of you involved in baseball fandom: Could you tell me if there's any Justin Upton slash out there? And if it exists, do you have any recs? I found myself admiring his legs again during the game today and I'm curious.

Speaking of slash, vitawash24 wrote the loveliest drabble for me the other day, which means I need to post the accompanying meme in my own journal, I think.

So...

Comment in this post to request a drabble/ficlet of any pairing/character of your choosing from me. (I'm going to have to be lame and restrict this somewhat to fandoms I've written in—i.e. Olympic swimming, NBA, Roger/Rafa, NFL.) Prompts are welcome, too! In return, please post this meme in your own journal—unless you really don't feel like it or don't want to. I'm flexible like that :)

Meanwhile, I spent the last few days up in Flagstaff for my sister's college graduation.

( Reflections from the north )

Icon Meme:

1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

These are the five that niennah selected:


This was made by thyrfing; I love her icons, and the message on this one was great, and also particularly useful when making triumphant Rafa posts—which, luckily enough, happened a lot this past year :) It's also such a Rafa!face; I couldn't resist it.


This was a random photo that I found via an extended Google image search or something; I don't even remember, I just remember that it was random! Anyway, someone had traced Rafa's name in the clay, and I just thought that was awesome. It was a screencap of a television broadcast, and the color quality was horrible—the clay was a dull, mousy brown, so it was a fun little exercise in color correction, on top of everything else.


Roger and Rafa during Kid's Day at this year's US Open. I just loved the unbridled, affectionate happiness on Rafa's face, and the raising eyebrow. It was a great little snapshot of their relationship.


Boris in a locker room, somewhere. This was before he joined the Suns, so maybe it's the Atlanta locker room? Or someplace in Europe? He looked quite young in the full-size version, I remember. Anyway, I love Boris, and shirtless Boris is even better. Plus there was something kind of poignant about Boris, alone, in a dark locker room, that appealed to me.


I hastily cropped this icon the night of the Wimbledon final. I just needed an icon to commemorate the victory; I was on such a high and didn't have any patience for much Photoshopping, but this photo was beautiful all on its own. It captures the part of that night that I will remember the most: the endless sparking of flashbulbs illuminating the trophy, the grass, Rafa's face. I loved this photo so much that I used the full-size version as a desktop at work until at least November.